But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.

A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your own moment.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals.

This is as much a part of my story as anything else. Friendship is love as much as any romance.